Non-refillable bottle.



R. H. WEATHERSBY & E. E. PUTNAM.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED 1m11.15, 1011.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

GRM/umg UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE..

ROBERT I-I. WEATHERSBY AND EDWARD E. PUTNAM, OF MAMMOTH, ARIZONA.

NoN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug'. 4, 1914.

Application led March 15, 1911. Serial No. 614,662. i

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT H. WEATI-I miser and EDWARD E. PUTNAM,citizens of the United States, residing at Mammoth, in the county ofPinal and State of Arizona, have invented new and useful Improvements inNon-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.`

This invention relates to improvements in non-rellable bottles, and theobject of the invention is to provide a device of this character whichis of an extremely simple construction and which comprises two separatecompartments, one being adapted for containing the liquid and the secondcompart ment being arranged above the said containing compartment, theupper compartment being constructed of some fragile material, which maybe easily broken so that the contents of the second. compartment canonly be obtained after the breakage of the upper compartment.

W'ith the above and other objects in view which will appear as thenature of the description progresses, the invention resides in the novelconstruction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described andclaimed.

In the drawings there has been illustrated a simple and preferredembodiment of t-he improvement in which,

Figure l is a perspective view of a bottle constructed in accordancewith the present invention. Fig. Q. is a vertical longitudinal sectionof the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the sealing stopper.Fig. 4; is a perspective view of the retaining spring.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates the bottle proper. The bodyportion of the bottle comprises what we term an upper and a lowercompartment designated respectively by the numerals 2 and 3. The lowercompartment is formed of some strong material, such as glass of theordinary thickness, while the upper compartment is formed of somefragile material, such as very t-hin glass. The compartment 3 is of agreater depth than the compartment 2 but both compartments are of equaldiameter.

The upper walls of the compartments are parallel and the uppercompartment 2 is provided with a mouth or opening 4l, the lowercompartment being preferably cylindrical. The inner face of the mouth isprovided with an annular groove 5 and the said groove is adapted to beengaged by the oflset feet 6, provided with a substantial U- shapedspring member 7.

The numeral 8 designates the stopper. This stopper has its top portionformed with a longitudinally extending depression or cutaway portion 9and its sides formed with depressed pockets 10, preferably of an annularform and registering with the longitudinal opening 9. The spring 7 .isadapted to be positioned in the opening and the depressions and the feetG will readily occupy the pocket 10 until the stopper is forcedsuiiieiently in the mouth 4 of the compartment 2 to permit the feet G tospring outwardly and into engagement with the walls formed by therecesses 5.

The top wall of the lower compartment designated by the numeral ll isprovided with an inlet opening or mouth l2 and this mouth is closed byany ordinary cork or stopper 13.

lVhen it is desired to obtain access to the contents of the compartment3, it is necessary to break the thin glass forming the outer compartment2, as the stopper' 8 with its spring catch 7 effectively preventsentrance to the upper compartment 2.

It is to be understood that the arms of the spring retaining member 7 donot entirely leave their pockets 10, but at all times engage theinclined walls thereof, the feet 6 being projected only a suilicientdistance to engage within the recess 5, so it will be noted that anattempt to force the stopper 8 downwardly within the compartment 2 iseffectively prevented.

From the above description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, the simplicity of the device as well as the advantages thereof,will, it is thought, commend themselves to those skilled in the art towhich such inventions appertain, and while we have illustrated anddescribed the preferred embodiment of the invention as it now appears tous, minor details as to size, shape, proportions, etc., within the scopeof the appended claim may be made if desired.

Having thus fully described the invention, what we claim is- A bottlecomprising a hollow body portion having a filling opening, the walls ofsaid body portion at diametrically opposed points terminating inwardlyin a direction toward the vertical center of the body portion andforming a concave-convex partition formed with a dispensing opening,said partition dividing the bottle into an"upper and a lowercompartment, the filling opening of the body portion being verticallyalined with the dispensing opening of the partition, the said partitionbeingV of'a`l thickness equal tothe thickness ofthe `wallsv of the lowercompartment andof a greater thickness than the walls of the upperoompartinent, whereby upon the breakage of the upper compartment thesaid `lpartitonvs less liable to breakage, the said upper compartmentbeing of the saineV diameter as .the lowerveolnpartinent; a closure foreaeli Qompartlnent, Ineans for positiyely retainingtbe closure in theopening of the upper corninwgytherebyr necessitating the breakage of theupper'eonipartment of the bottle in Order to gain aecess to the Contentsof the lower compartment.

In testnionywhereof we afx our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ROBER'Dl H. VVEATHERSBY.

PUTNAM. Vpitnesses;

P. M. BUTLEiz, J. E. Dunois,

Copies of thisvpatent may b e obtained for live' cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. ".Gl

